Notes: Tidwell is also the athletic director at Lamar ... The Lady Cardinals were the SLC regular-season champions last year ... Lamar is coming off a 90-61 SLC home victory over Northwestern State on Wednesday night after 26 points from Plumley and Nicholls is coming off 72-71 last-second SLC home loss to conference-leading McNeese (6-0 in the SLC) after 26 points from Allen ... Nicholls is last in the SLC East, while Lamar, which opened the week ranked 86th in the latest RPI rankings (tops in the SLC, up 22 spots from the week before), is second in the SLC East, only behind McNeese ... Lamar is also tops in attendance in the SLC at 1,552 per game ... The game can be heard at LamarCardinals.com.